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Timothy Fortune isn't your stereotypic fictional missionary, all dead dogma and dammed-up desire, but a genuinely good man for whom the discovery of love and the discovery of his utter aloneness come with a shock any of us can share.
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Timothy Fortune isn't your stereotypic fictional missionary, all dead dogma and dammed-up desire, but a genuinely good man for whom the discovery of love and the discovery of his utter aloneness come with a shock any of us can share.
Authors and others 2010
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Timothy Fortune isn't your stereotypic fictional missionary, all dead dogma and dammed-up desire, but a genuinely good man for whom the discovery of love and the discovery of his utter aloneness come with a shock any of us can share.
A Different Stripe: 2009
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Timothy Fortune isn't your stereotypic fictional missionary, all dead dogma and dammed-up desire, but a genuinely good man for whom the discovery of love and the discovery of his utter aloneness come with a shock any of us can share.
From the editor 2009
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Chlorinated pools 25 yards in length, a dammed-up Hill Country creek, a pond surrounded by lawn and trees, a lake reaching the distant mountains: each swim is different from the last.
In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010
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Thousands of homes have been flooded in the past by dammed-up wastewater.
Sewer Divers 2007
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Or look at what happened to the community in Tennessee where the dammed-up swamp of filthy coal ash -- what's left over when you burn it - spilled into people's homes and polluted their water.
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Thousands of homes have been flooded in the past by dammed-up wastewater.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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One of the things Austin is known for is its downtown hike-and-bike trail that runs around what's called Town Lake, which was created when the Colorado River was dammed-up in 1960.
Jackson Williams: A Texan Looks At Lady Bird (and Loves the View) 2008
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I have to say, it's been amusing to see liberals give free rein to thirty years of dammed-up misogynism.
Kenya Declares a Holiday Walter Jon Williams 2008
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